While the City Defense Army cleared away the demon corpses outside the city, Song Yueyao also reported the situation in the Black Wind Mountain Range to Yue Shuhong.
Yue Shuhong immediately sent a scout to investigate and verify her report.
When the scout saw the mountain covered in demon corpses, he was stunned senseless.
The number of demon corpses here was no smaller than the heaps outside the city.
In particular, the tall platform of corpses stacked into a neat square consisted entirely of Great Demons. A rough count put their number at over twenty.
The scout also spotted the Giant Strength True God, the Bear Demon whose reputation had long loomed over the lands outside the city. Now, however, he too had become a slightly rotting, foul-smelling corpse, stacked beneath the platform of flesh.
His legs trembling, the scout hurried back to the city and reported every detail to Yue Shuhong.
After hearing him out, Yue Shuhong stood dazed for a long while before letting out a deep breath.
He had presided over Cangyu City for decades. Naturally, he knew that Li Hao must have slaughtered every Great Demon lurking around it!
Had Tan Palace Academy not happened to assign this mission, and had Li Hao not happened to accept it... Yue Shuhong hardly dared imagine what kind of living hell Cangyu City would have become.
Excitement mingled with sorrowful reflection. The great stone that had weighed on his heart for decades finally fell away.
Two days later.
The demon corpses outside Cangyu City had largely been cleared away, and the academy mission undertaken by Li Hao and the others was officially declared complete.
Their arrival had been hurried, but their return journey promised to be leisurely and relaxed. Yue Shuhong provided them with a carriage.
He personally escorted